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remuneration is decreased if shareholder support for compensation schemes is low in say on pay-votes finds only weak support, if … analytical approach for say on pay-regimes. Any evaluation of a shareholder voice-strategy in regulating executive remuneration … has to pay close attention to the limits contract law stipulates for the adaptation of existing remuneration agreements …
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I find that corporate boards frequently link CEO compensation to subjective performance measures that are neither accounting ratios nor stock returns. Subjective measurement incorporates soft information privately observed by the board about the CEO's contribution to long-term firm value. I show...
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According to the prior literature, family executives of family-controlled firms receive lower compensation than non-family executives. One of the key driving forces behind this is the existence of family members who are not involved in management, but own significant fraction of shares and...
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In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the crisis, and incurred larger losses and were more likely...
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Germany is the largest economy in Europe and yet there has been very little research in the area of shareholder activism. Main objective of this research paper is to discuss shareholder activism for DAX 30 companies. We provide the most recent empirical evidence that formal activism in Germany...
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[enter Abstract Body]We use a sample of randomly selected CRSP-listed firms to explore the cross-sectional determinants of corporate board size. We find that the average number of directors on boards differs significantly across industries. Further evidence indicates that these differences are...
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We study the effect of corporate board structure on firm performance under different product market conditions. Using customer-supplier links to identify exogenous downstream demand shocks, we find that board independence has a more significant effect on firm performance when the firm-specific...
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We derive and develop a simple and intuitive model that shines fresh light on the relentless debate over whether corporate ownership converges to the Berle-Means modern corporation with high stock ownership dispersion. Our model takes into account the importance of both protective legal...
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This paper discusses stakeholder wealth maximization as the ultimate objective of Corporate Governance. This study investigates the role of CG in minimizing the total risk on the firm and maximizing the wealth. At the end, paper intends to examine possibility of CG as a sorting variable for...
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This study examines the impact of cash holdings on firm value before and during the 2008 financial crisis. In answering this question, our analysis assesses the conditioning effect of financial constraints and corporate governance. In our core finding we show that the equity market places a...
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